gnucash-docs-2.6.12 404?

David T. sunfish62 at yahoo.com
Wed Apr 20 19:46:53 EDT 2016


It appears the problem has been fixed (I had observed the same trouble earlier today).

> On Apr 20, 2016, at 6:48 PM, Tommy Trussell <tommy.trussell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Apr 20, 2016 at 9:39 AM, Bill Nottingham <notting at splat.cc> wrote:
> 
>> John Ralls (jralls at ceridwen.us) said:
>>>> On Apr 19, 2016, at 5:48 PM, Bill Nottingham <notting at splat.cc> wrote:
>>>> 
>>>> Was the docs tarball pulled? It's not properly downloading from SF at
>> the
>>>> moment.
>>>> 
>>> 
>>> Somebody complained about that on IRC yesterday too. The correct URL is
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download
>>> and the SH-256 is
>> 0e4a7338aee0c5ec50d46a9b5f243a08e82215f079a125d85fc95af823906d04.
>>> 
>>> Where's the bad link?
>> 
>> That is the bad link, at least when I try:
>> 
>> [notting at nostromo: ~]$ wget
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download
>> --2016-04-20 10:39:05--
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/gnucash/files/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz/download
>> Resolving sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)... 216.34.181.60
>> Connecting to sourceforge.net (sourceforge.net)|216.34.181.60|:443...
>> connected.
>> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 404 Not Found
>> 2016-04-20 10:39:05 ERROR 404: Not Found.
>> 
>> 
> I just tried it, and the link works for me in a web browser -- though the
> actual download just now came from:
> 
> http://iweb.dl.sourceforge.net/project/gnucash/gnucash-docs/2.6.12/gnucash-docs-2.6.12.tar.gz
> 
> I think the 404 error happens because wget doesn't trigger the scripts on
> the SourceForge site that redirect the download to a mirror with the actual
> files.
> 
> I don't doubt that SourceForge might block direct access to the link above.
> They have to serve up a screen full of advertisements, after all! ;-)
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